Smallpox: prevention
1 May 2010
WHO
©
Credits
Smallpox: a pictorial guide to diagnosis, a brochure published by WHO in 1969 to help identify smallpox in African patients.
WHO/Vladimir Zikmund
©
Credits
A health worker questions children about possible cases in the region, showing them the Pictorial guide to diagnosis, Somalia, 1976.
WHO
©
Credits
A WHO smallpox recognition card from 1971. It shows a patient with a relatively mild case of smallpox.
WHO/Joel Breman
©
Credits
Health workers enquire whether school children have seen smallpox cases, using recognition cards, Sudan, 1978.
WHO/L. Dale
©
Credits
A health worker shows a recognition card to women in a village, Bangladesh, 1975.
WHO/L. Dale
©
Credits
Health workers warn the population against the dangers of smallpox at a bus station in Dacca, Bangladesh, 1975.
WHO
©
Credits
Health workers warn people against the dangers of smallpox, Yemen, 1970s.
WHO
©
Credits
Painting a display panel based on a recognition card, promising a reward to anyone providing information about smallpox cases, Bangladesh, 1975.
/